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Android claims 81% of global market; Sprint's Boost Mobile to sell new iPhones Nov. 8 and much more...  They said what??!? Top wireless executive quotes of 2013
It's no secret that the vast majority of what wireless executives say in public is not surprising. Usually it's a recitation of phrases, talking points and ideas they have made in the past that they are simply reinforcing. However, every once in a while, in an interview or unguarded moment, wireless executives can let loose a whopper: Special report
 2013 Wireless industry nightmares
It's time to take a light-hearted break from the third-quarter earnings season rush: Just like we did in 2012 and 2011, FierceWireless in 2013 has taken a look inside the minds of some of the industry's top executives to see what really scares them. These nightmares are scenarios that could plausibly come to pass within the next year. Special Report
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Today's Top News 1. Report: AT&T gearing up for Vodafone takeover in 2014
AT&T (NYSE:T) is exploring plans for a potential takeover of Vodafone sometime next year, according to a Bloomberg report, adding further fuel to the idea that AT&T is interested in a major deal with a European operator. The report, citing unnamed sources, said while the companies haven't started any formal negotiations, AT&T is sharpening its focus internally on which Vodafone assets it would keep after a deal and who could buy others. AT&T is also still looking at EE as an alternative target, which is owned by Orange and Deutsche Telekom and is the leading LTE operator in the United Kingdom. Any AT&T/Vodafone deal would have to wait for the conclusion of Verizon Communications' (NYSE:VZ) $130 billion deal to acquire Vodafone's 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless, which the companies expect to close in early 2014. AT&T may ultimately decide to abandon a Vodafone bid, the report said. The companies involved all declined to comment, Bloomberg said. However, AT&T has made no secret of its interest in Europe. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson in October said that he continues to be fascinated by how slow mobile broadband is moving in Europe and therefore he thinks it is "a huge opportunity for somebody." In September he said "if there were opportunities that presented a good value, of course we would do it." Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao is in principle open to a deal, depending on its terms, but is nonetheless formulating a stand-alone strategy for Vodafone that could include major new deals in wireline telecommunications, according to the Bloomberg report. Colao has worked to bolster the company's ability to sell bundled plans of fixed and mobile services. For instance, Vodafone recently concluded its purchase of cable operator Kabel Deutschland in Germany. Meanwhile, any ambitions AT&T has in Europe could be slowed by the growing furor across the region over disclosures of surveillance by the National Security Agency, as the Wall Street Journal notes. German and other European officials told the Journal any attempt by AT&T to acquire a major wireless operator would face intense scrutiny, given the company's work with the U.S. agency's data-collection programs for phone call metadata and other programs. "One would really have to ask: Should this be allowed? Does this make sense? What does this mean for our standards of data privacy?" Anton Hofreiter, co-leader in parliament of the minority left-leaning Greens, said of a potential AT&T deal. For more:
- see this Bloomberg article
- see this WSJ article (sub. req.)
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2. U.S. Cellular loses 71,000 subs in Q3, apologizes for billing system errors
U.S. Cellular (NYSE:USM) reported weaker financial and subscriber results for the third quarter and is also working to move beyond problems with its new billing system. While it is dealing with that, company is also rolling out new shared data plans and gearing up for the Nov. 8 launch of Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone 5s, 5c and 4S, and iPad Air, its first Apple products. The carrier has recently been working with billing vendor Amdocs to fix problems in its new billing system. U.S. Cellular acknowledged the problems in early October, shortly after the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that many U.S. Cellular customers were angry over receiving multiple bills in a short time with inaccurate balances or overcharges. U.S. Cellular first noted billing system problems in July, but at that time said the issue had been resolved. "Regrettably, the billing system implementation impacted our ability to provide high-quality service to every customer for a period of time," U.S. Cellular CEO Kenneth Meyers said in a statement today in conjunction with the carrier's third quarter results. "However, we have made substantial progress in resolving the issues, and we expect the system to provide significant benefits over the long term." Meyers added during the company's third-quarter earnings conference call that the company "expected a conversion of this size and complexity to have its challenges, but quite frankly, we underestimated them." He said the company doled out around $10 million in billing credits to customers during the period as a result of the billing system issues. However, Meyers said the new system, which is now fully in place, will let the carrier serve more customers and lead to more efficient sales. He said it will also let the company introduce new services faster, and that the carrier's shared data plans could not have been launched without the new billing system. Meyers said it's too soon to comment on adoption of shared data plans, which the company started offering in mid-October. Perhaps as a result of the snafu, the company said that Jay Ellison has rejoined U.S. Cellular to lead its sales and customer service operations. Carter Elenz, who had been the company's executive vice president of sales and customer service, is leaving the company effective today. Ellison retired from U.S. Cellular in 2009; he was a member of the leadership team for nearly 10 years, serving most recently as executive vice president and COO. Here is a breakdown of U.S. Cellular's key quarterly metrics: Smartphones: Smartphones represented 65.2 percent of all devices sold in the second quarter, down slightly from 66 percent in the second quarter but up from 53 percent in the year-ago period. Around 47 percent of U.S. Cellular's postpaid subscriber base has a smartphone, up from 45.5 percent in the second quarter and 38.6 percent in the year-ago quarter. Meyers said not having the iPhone "has been major contributing factor" to higher churn, and that the company expects to see improvement in churn and gross additions with the launch of the device. U.S. Cellular CMO David Kimbell said the company is "excited about the launch and aggressively working to drive awareness" through "strong promotional activity" in the hopes of winning back some customers who may have left the carrier because it lacked the iPhone. U.S. Cellular executives said there may be supply constraints for certain models but that the company is working with Apple to make sure it has enough supplies through the holiday shopping season. LTE: U.S. Cellular said it is close to deploying LTE to nearly 90 percent of its subscribers, its year-end goal. The company also said it will have additional LTE deployments on the 850 MHz band to provide extra capacity "for future growth in data usage, enable potential future 4G LTE roaming, and support the sale of Apple products." Meyers said the recently formalized 700 MHz interoperability agreement will benefit U.S. Cellular customers, but that the carrier is deploying LTE on 850 MHz because many carriers use that frequency in devices and it could facilitate LTE roaming agreements in the future. Fully 35 percent of the company's postpaid device base is now on LTE devices, and LTE devices on average produce 1.2 GB of data per month, compared to 960 MB per month for 3G-only devices, Meyers said. Subscribers: In total, for all its markets, U.S. Cellular lost 71,000 customers in the third quarter, including 60,000 postpaid subscribers and 11,000 prepaid customers. While that's an improvement from the 127,000 subscribers the carrier lost in the second quarter, it's a drop from the third quarter of 2012, when the company gained a net of 19,000 retail customers (38,000 postpaid losses and 57,000 net prepaid additions). The company ended the third quarter with around 4.87 million total customers. Churn: U.S. Cellular's postpaid churn rate was 1.7 percent, flat from the year-ago period and down from 2 percent from the second quarter. ARPU: U.S. Cellular's postpaid average revenue per user was $54.64, up from $54.34 in the year-ago period and $54.18 in the second quarter. Financials: Total revenue was $939.2 million, down 18 percent from $1.14 billion in the year-ago quarter. Service revenue clocked in at $862.3 million, down from $1.04 billion in the third quarter of 2012. The company reported a net loss of $9.9 million, a reversal from a profit of $35.5 million in the year-ago period. For more:
- see this release Special Report: Wireless in the third quarter of 2013
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3. Google releases LG's LTE Nexus 5 with Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T support, but Verizon is MIA
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) unveiled its Nexus 5 Android smartphone, built by LG, which Google will sell unlocked starting at $349 for the 16 GB model. Google said the LTE-capable phone will be sold by Sprint (NYSE:S), T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS) and AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T), according to reports, but that the phone will not work on Verizon Wireless' (NYSE:VZ) network.  | | Nexus 5 | According to The Verge, Google's Sundar Pichai, vice president of Android and Chrome, confirmed that "the Nexus 5 will not be on Verizon." As The Verge points out, this is the second major Google device that appears to have been snubbed by Verizon; the carrier initially refused to support Google's recently announced Nexus 7 tablet, though Verizon subsequently promised to reverse that position at some point in the future.
Verizon's apparent rebuke of Google's recent devices is notable considering Verizon partnered closely with Google for the 2009 launch of Verizon's Droid line of phones, supplied primarily by Motorola. Verizon's Droid marketing push aimed to topple the growing popularity of Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone, then exclusive to AT&T, and dramatically expanded Android's profile in the United States. However, according to The Verge, Google and Verizon may be looking toward a renewed partnership in 2014. Pichai told the publication Google is "working with [Verizon] on a set of projects for 2014." He didn't elaborate. As for the Nexus 5, the phone combines cutting-edge hardware and software at an unsubsidized price of around half of what most current smartphones sell for. It also refreshes Google's Nexus line of smartphones in time for the holiday shopping season. Google's Nexus phones are intended to provide a "pure" Android experience bereft of operator and handset maker add-ons. The Nexus 5 runs on Qualcomm's (NASDAQ:QCOM) Snapdragon 800 processor and offers a 5-inch Full HD screen, wireless charging, 8-megapixel rear camera and 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, 2300 mAh battery and NFC. In North America, the phone supports LTE bands 1, 2, 4, 5, 17, 19, 25, 26 and 41, and in international markets the phone supports LTE bands 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 and 20. Google is selling the phone via its Google Play online storefront in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Korea. In the United States, Sprint said it would sell the Nexus 5 for $149.99 with a contract starting Nov. 8. T-Mobile said it would begin selling the phone "in the coming weeks" and "at an affordable price," but the carrier didn't provide details. AT&T did not immediately respond to questions about its plans to sell the phone. The arrival of the Nexus 5 also signals the availability of Google's Android version 4.4, dubbed KitKat. Announced last month, the latest version of Google's Android operating system sports a refined user interface and improved support for its Google Now service as well as voice search. Google also said the OS can run on phones with just 512 MB of RAM, which will allow Android phone makers to install the OS into low-cost smartphones.
As The Verge explained, Google Now, Android's search-based digital assistant, is now accessed via a left-to-right swipe away from the homescreen, and can now deliver information based on a user's location, or on sites visited frequently, or even TV shows a user likes. Google Now can now direct users straight to not only the appropriate website via a search query, but the right app. "Our mission," Pichai said, "is every time you pick up your phone, the information you want, in context, is right there." For more:
- see this Google post
- see these two The Verge articles
- see this separate The Verge article
- see this CNET article Related Articles:
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4. Crown Castle CEO: Sprint, Verizon LTE overlays will pump up tower activity
By the middle of next year most Tier 1 carriers' macro LTE buildouts are expected to be largely completed. Some carriers, such as AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T), have indicated that the next phase of network evolution, to LTE Advanced, will be largely the result of software upgrades to existing network equipment. However, in an interview with FierceWireless, Crown Castle CEO Ben Moreland contended that despite that trend, there will still be a lot of cell site activity and amendments in the next few years. He pointed to Sprint (NYSE:S), which has indicated it plans to build out TD-LTE service using its 2.5 GHz spectrum to 100 million POPs by the end of 2014 on top of its existing 1.9 GHz LTE network and planned 800 MHz LTE service. Sprint announced it will brand its forthcoming tri-mode LTE service as "Sprint Spark," and said it will bring the service to the top 100 U.S. markets during the next three years with speeds capable of reaching 50-60 Mbps and perhaps faster. The first markets with limited availability of Sprint Spark will be Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Miami and Tampa. Sprint plans to have 5,000 2.5 GHz TD-LTE sites on air by the end of 2013, a goal in line with Clearwire's previous buildout plans. Today Sprint counts a total of 55,000 macro cell sites, a level Sprint expects staying at for the next few years. Sprint's current plan for Network Vision is to modernize 38,000 cell sites with multi-mode base stations. "Sprint hasn't done a lot of sites in the last six years," Moreland said. "As they build a very robust product with Network Vision and add capacity with the 2.5 GHz spectrum, I would expect that they're going to need to come back and add sites." That contention fits with both comments from analysts and Crown Castle's competitors. SBA Communications CEO Jeffrey Stoops told FierceWireless in October that SBA will look to get a piece of Sprint's planned nationwide deployment of 2.5 GHz spectrum for TD-LTE services. "We're clearly interested," he said. "That's our business and we expect to get at least our fair share." "We expect that Sprint will repurpose the Clearwire tower sites and add an estimated 15,000 to 18,000 cell tower sites, which will generate increased leasing revenue that the carrier pays to the tower companies," Gregory Fraser, a Moody's Investors Service analyst, wrote in August. "These new tower sites will replace the 16,500 Clearwire sites scheduled to be decommissioned and will therefore eliminate the risk that lost rent from those towers would not be replaced with new rental revenue." New Street Research analyst Jonathan Chaplin predicted over the summer that Sprint's total cell site count would increase to somewhere between 50,000 and 60,000 sites, more than offsetting disconnects of old Clearwire sites. Sprint's confirmation of maintaining a cell site count of 55,000 in the years ahead seems to confirm that. It's not just Sprint that will have new cell site activity, according to Moreland. Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ), for instance, has said it will not commercially deploy Voice over LTE until its LTE network can produce the same voice quality as its 3G CDMA network. Verizon plans to launch VoLTE in the first half of 2014. Moreland said getting to that level of quality will require additional LTE cell sites. Further, Verizon is expanding its LTE network from its 700 MHz spectrum to its AWS spectrum, with 5,000 sites planned for the end of this year, which could generate additional tower activity. Moody's also said that once AT&T acquires Leap Wireless (NASDAQ:LEAP), it "may take similar steps to those of Sprint," which will likewise benefit independent tower firms. AT&T is expected to further its LTE deployment by taking advantage of Leap's underutilized spectrum on roughly 15,000 to 20,000 sites, including the 9,700 leased sites AT&T will gain through buying the regional carrier. Moreland said all of this activity will vindicate the company's strategy over the last two years of aggressively acquiring U.S. assets. In September 2012, T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS) agreed to sell the rights to 7,200 of its towers to Crown Castle for $2.4 billion. In the T-Mobile deal, Crown noted that 83 percent of the towers were located in the top 100 U.S. markets and 72 percent were located in the top 50 markets. In October, AT&T agreed to sell and lease 9,700 of its cell towers to Crown Castle in a $4.85 billion deal. Crown said that the towers are mostly in urban areas, with nearly 50 percent of sites in the top 50 U.S. markets. Also, in December 2011, Crown agreed to pay $1 billion to acquire distributed antennas systems (DAS) provider NextG Networks, which has given the tower company a leg up in small cells. Moreland acknowledged that the T-Mobile portfolio has more towers in the top urban markets than the AT&T portfolio, but he said that, ultimately, as carriers continue to densify their networks that distinction would not be material. Taken together, he said, the nearly 17,000 towers are younger than Crown's legacy towers and have, on average 1.5 to 1.75 tenants per site, leaving a lot of room for growth. "All of it basically goes to our original strategic moves we've made over the last 18 months, which is to spend $9 billion on U.S. assets which we think are extremely well positioned to handle this path of growth from LTE," Moreland said.
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5. Rockstar, backed by Apple, blasts Google and Android handset makers with patent lawsuits
After years of reverse-engineering electronics gadgets and looking for infringing products, a patent consortium owned by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), Sony, EMC and BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) has filed a battery of lawsuits against Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Android manufacturers like Samsung, HTC, Huawei and others. The action opens another, major front in the patent-infringement war that has engulfed virtually all of the world's major mobile players. The lawsuits stem from the Rockstar patent consortium, which paid $4.5 billion for the 6,000 patents that bankrupt Nortel Networks offered up for auction in 2011. Rockstar is primarily backed by Apple, which paid $2.6 billion into the effort. BlackBerry paid $770 million for its share of the patents, Ericsson paid $340 million and the remaining $790 million was split among cloud-storage company EMC, Microsoft and Sony. According to a report from Wired, Rockstar for the past several years has employed 10 full-time workers to reverse-engineer various products in a search for infringing companies. Rockstar would then pursue those companies for patent licenses. And now it seems Rockstar has found a group of companies that declined to ink patent-licensing agreements. According to reports of the lawsuits, Rockstar's handful of lawsuits target a wide range of technologies, including the pairing of Internet searches with advertisements that forms the basis of Google's business. The patents also target various technologies in Google's Android operating system, which Samsung, HTC, Huawei and others use in their smartphones. According to Reuters, Google declined to comment on the lawsuits and the other companies targeted in the lawsuits did not immediately respond for a request for comment. In Rockstar's lawsuits, the consortium notes that Google participated in the auction for Nortel's patents, starting with a $900 million bid and offering as much as $4.4 billion. Thus, Rockstar notes, Google is well aware of the value of the patents. Indeed, shortly after Rockstar won Nortel's patents in auction, Google announced in 2011 its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, which Google at the time said was partially to obtain Motorola's trove of 17,000 patents. "We think combining with Motorola and having that kind of a patent portfolio to protect the (Android) ecosystem is a good thing," David Drummond, Google's senior vice president and chief legal officer, said at the time. Apple's investment in Rockstar appears to have sprung directly from former CEO Steve Jobs, who told his biographer that he would "go nuclear" on Android because he thought it was a product stolen from Apple's iPhone. Specifically, according to biographer Walter Isaacson, Jobs "became angrier than I had ever seen him," while discussing Android, explaining that "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product." Jobs died in 2011. According to Strategy Analytics, Android commanded 81 percent of the global smartphone market in the third quarter, far ahead of the iPhone's 13.4 percent. Apple's campaign against Android let to the company's $1 billion courtroom victory against Samsung's Android smartphones in 2012, though the damages in the ruling were subsequently slashed the damages in the case by $450.5 million. The case has since been mired in appeals. The billions of dollars that have been tied up in patent lawsuits in the mobile industry and the wider business market have sparked calls for an overhaul of the patent system. "Rockstar's attack on Google highlights two of the most egregious problems with our country's broken patent regime," said Charles Duan, Direct of Public Knowledge's patent reform project. Duan said that Rockstar sells no products and doesn't promote innovation, and also shields its owners, including Apple, from counter lawsuits. "Many of the patents asserted by Rockstar appear to be overly broad and of low quality. It is likely that its attempt to hobble its owners' competitors in the courtroom will ultimately fail. But it will be expensive to reach that point, and whatever the outcome of the litigation, consumers will bear the cost," Duan concluded. For more:
- see this Reuters article
- see this AllThingsD article
- see this Verge article that cites this Wired article
- see this GigaOM article Related Articles:
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Also Noted SPOTLIGHT ON... FAA's decision on mobile devices during flights leaves winners, losers for in-flight Wi-Fi The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday that airline passengers will be able to use mobile devices placed in "airplane mode" during all phases of flights, including takeoff and landings. The FAA said it was immediately providing guidance to airlines that would let them implement the new rules. Cell phone calls will still be prohibited during flight, but the ruling is a victory for consumer advocates and politicians who have pushed for years for the FAA to change its stance. However, as the Wall Street Journal points out, the ruling will create winners and losers for the in-flight Wi-Fi industry. While Gogo CEO Michael Small told Reuters the decision is "another favorable tailwind" for the company, since people having their devices out more will lead to more usage, Gogo has said its system is not designed to function below 10,000 feet, largely because it connects via cell towers on the ground. As the Journal noted, that means its airline clients, including Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, US Airways, Alaska Airlines and Virgin America, "will still be unable to offer Internet to their passengers during takeoffs and landings." However, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and JetBlue Airways should be able to let their customers use their devices during takeoffs and landings because their Wi-Fi providers connect to the Internet via satellites. Article (sub. req.) Quick news from around the Web. @FierceWireless: acquires Arteris' NoC tech assets, team. . | Follow@FierceWireless > Microsoft will reportedly almost double its Windows marketing budget this year to around $400 million. Article > Motorola's Moto X will be among the vendor's phones that will receive the upgrade to Android version 4.4, dubbed KitKat. Article. Meanwhile, HTC promised its all of its One smartphones in North America would score the KitKat upgrade within the next three months. Article > Sprint's Boost Mobile will start selling Apple's new iPhones on Nov. 8. Release > According to Strategy Analytics, Android captured 81 percent of the global smartphone market, mainly from Apple and BlackBerry. Release > Silicon Valley startup Kumu Networks, which claims its self-interference solution can double network capacity, nailed down $15 million in Series B funding. Article > Apple's iPad Air is going on sale today. Article > Google's Galaxy Nexus will not be upgraded to Android version 4.4, dubbed KitKat. Article > Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong businessman, acquired a 2 percent stake in HTC. Article Cable News > Google Fiber said Wednesday that it launched new apps for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch that subscribers can use to channel surf and manage DVR recordings. Article > Phoenix-based cable MSO Cable One lost 14,643 video, 5,004 high-speed Internet and 2,737 telephone customers during the third quarter, parent The Washington Post Co. reported Friday. Article > Brushing aside reports that he isn't interested in merging Time Warner Cable with Charter Communications and other cable MSOs, Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt insisted Thursday that the company would agree to a deal if it made money for shareholders. Article Telecom News > Alcatel-Lucent's IP routing division continues to be the shining star in the company's portfolio, rising 7 percent year-over-year to $789.2 million. Article And finally… Google's mystery barge could be a VIP party boat. Or maybe a Google Glass store. Or maybe both. Article > Virtualization: The OEM Secret to Launching New Devices Faster and Cheaper- Now Available On-Demand How do some OEMs manage to outpace the competition by launching new devices to market faster and cheaper without sacrificing functionality and performance? In this webinar, Red Bend Software will unveil this secret and present how virtualization can bring significant business benefits to smartphones, tablets and connected cars. Register today to view this presentation > Now Available On-Demand- ePMP - Connect the Unconnected This webinar explores the benefits of the new ePMP 1000 solution - an unlicensed, outdoor proprietary RF interface technology that brings reliability and high performance. View Now!
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